Mike Ball, Beyond Aerospace Ltd.

Mike Ball, Beyond Aerospace Ltd.

Mike Ball is the CEO of Beyond Aerospace Ltd. Leveraging extensive experience in the delivery of airborne networking, Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) services, Beyond Aerospace enables the future of unmanned aviation by delivering a true “System-of-Systems” communications architecture for autonomous Beyond Line of Sight operations of unmanned aircraft.
After completing his engineering degree in 2003, Mike spent several years developing mission-critical embedded systems for industrial automation and machine vision applications. Since transitioning to Engineering Manager at SKYTRAC Systems in 2013, Mike has established a proven track record of delivering satellite connectivity and software services to the aviation industry on a global scale, overseeing avionics design, software development, systems integration and aircraft certification.
Mike has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is registered as a Professional Engineer with APEGBC, and is delegated by Transport Canada for Avionics and Electrical systems on both fixed-wing aircraft and rotorcraft.